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Music under the swastika [videorecording (DVD)] : the maestro and the cellist of Auschwitz / ein film von Christian Berger.

C Major Entertainment, 2023.

DVD 781.68 M987 Doc

Lasker-Wallfisch, Anita.

Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)

Jews -- Poland -- Biography.

Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.

Alternate title:

Music in Nazi Germany [videorecording (DVD)] : the maestro and the cellist of Auschwitz

Klassik unterm Hakenkreuz [videorecording (DVD)] : der maestro und cie cellistin von Auschwitz

[videorecording (DVD)] :

1 videodisc (86 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet (17 p. : ill. (b&w) ; 18 cm.

Originally produced and broadcasted on television in 2022.

Includes English, German (narrator) and Spanish language tracks with optional English, French, German, Japanese or Korean subtitles ; accompanying booklet notes in English and German.

A production of 3B-Produktion ; written and directed by Christian Berger ; producers, Bernhard von Hülsen, Maria Willer.

With Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Kathrin and Thomas Ackermann, Daniel Barenboim, Albrecht Dümling, Sven Friedrich, Shirli Gilbert, Norman Lebrecht, Tobias Reichard, Christian Thielemann, Simon Wallfisch, Teresa Wontor-Cichy.

"Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for classical German music. The world-famous conductor made a pact with Hitler and his henchmen. The young woman brought to Auschwitz for being Jewish was spared death for her musical talent. German music was used to justify the powerful position the Third Reich claimed in the world, and to distract listeners from Nazi crimes. The music documentary by Christian Berger features interviews with musicians like Daniel Barenboim and Christian Thielemann; the children of Wilhelm Furtwängler; and of course 97-year-old survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch. Her memories are chilling. Archive film footage, restored and colorized, brings the story to life and bears witness to an agonizing chapter in history."--Container.

Foreigin films.

Documentary films.

Biographical documentary films.

Berger, Christian (Documentary filmmaker)

Lasker-Wallfisch, Anita.

Barenboim, Daniel, 1942-

Thielemann, Christian, 1959-

C Major Entertainment GmbH.

3B-Produktion (Firm)

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